Our researchers are decoding the ALT process—used by 10–15% of cancers to survive. With @unibirmingham.bsky.social #BlueBEAR HPC, long-read sequencing & deep learning, we aim to uncover therapeutic targets & biomarkers. #CancerResearch #Genomics #HPC blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/11...

Congratulations to researchers Luisa Orsini and Jiarui Zhou for winning the international award #HPCwireRCA25 for their pioneering research using AI and HPC (on BlueBEAR) to tackle biodiversity loss and environmental pollution: www.birmingham.ac.uk/news/2025/un... ^SEMT

🎉Celebrate 25 years of #JPEG2000 with us! 🎉On 19 Nov (2-4pm UTC) the #DPC is hosting an open event exploring the standard’s past, present, and future. With keynote speaker Dr Robert Buckley and case studies from Wellcome, Harvard, and the Internet Archive […] [Original post on digipres.club]

Can we reliably link ion mobility signals to molecular structures? This PhD project uses MD simulations & CCS calculations to find out blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/11... powered by @unibirmingham.bsky.social BlueBEAR supercomputing. #MassSpec #MolecularDynamics #ComputationalChemistry #PhDLife

The enterprise IT perimeter is dead. @1Password knows it. Their Extended Access Management secures the messy reality of modern work. My new piece explores their strategic pivot: from "the people of no" to enabling productivity. securityboulevard.co... #Cybersecurity #IdentitySecurity #EAM #XFD14

🐻 Need advice on using the supercomputer, managing your research data, or software support? Drop by our session TODAY at Café Aroma, Staff House, 1:30–2:30pm. Bring your questions and chat with the BEAR team! ^YZ #HPC #ResearchSupport

🧠 The N8 Data Stewards Network launched on 23 October with its first meeting: Working with and Managing Sensitive Research Data. 📑 Slides now available—recordings coming soon! n8cir.org.uk/training-and... @n8research.bsky.social #DataStewardship #FAIRData #GenAI #FiveSafes #OpenScience #TREs

If you're not from the University of Birmingham, please vote for my research group, using our HPC-systems #BlueBEAR and #Baskerville for high-impact research in the 2025 #HPCWireAwards Vote by Friday 3 October: hpcwire.com/2025-hpcwire...

Exploring the future of #EnergyData: tackling challenges in governance & security,unlocking opportunities for #Innovation & #Sustainability. Dive into the BEAR blog blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/10... #DataScience #EnergyTransition #SmartEnergy

🔬 Exploring nanoscale protein patterns with Nano-org, developed by Prof. Dylan Owen’s lab and powered by BlueBEAR compute & storage, with software engineering support from BEAR RSEs Helen, Afraz & Adrian. Read more: blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/10... #HPC #storage ^YZ

💡 Today we celebrate #AdaLovelaceDay — honouring Ada Lovelace, the world’s first computer programmer, and all the women who’ve shaped science, technology, engineering, and maths. 👩‍💻Their creativity and determination continue to inspire innovation. ^YZ #WomenInSTEM #Software #WomenInTech #STEM

🎉 Happy #InternationalRSEDay 2025! Today we celebrate our amazing Research Software Engineers — the creative minds turning code into discovery and innovation. 💻 Thank you for powering research across every discipline and helping ideas become impact! 🔬 #RSEDay #RSE ^YZ

New term, new course and new companion podcast episodes #forCodeInResearch. After C++ it's Python for Research Software Engineering at #UCL (COMP233). Out first session: the Git version control system. Out now on your #podcast app, YouTube podcast or uclforcodeinresearch.buzzsprout.com

Got questions about using the supercomputer, handling your research data, or getting software support? Come along to our drop-in TODAY at Café Aroma (Staff House) from 1:30–2:30pm. 🐻The BEAR team will be there to chat and help out! ^YZ #HPC #ResearchSupport

Sign up to BEAR’s self-enrol Canvas course to access the recordings - canvas.bham.ac.uk/enroll/TRPBDB #MATLAB #MATLABambassador

🧠 Crunching numbers with #BlueBEAR! Researchers use Bayesian modelling to explore how decision thresholds rise in DDMs—making sense of complex choices, one simulation at a time. blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/09... #DataScience #HPC ^AKG

If you're not from the University of Birmingham, please vote for our 3 shortlisted research groups, using our HPC-systems #BlueBEAR and #Baskerville for high-impact research in the 2025 #HPCWireAwards Vote by Friday 3 October: hpcwire.com/2025-hpcwire...

On Wednesday we celebrated a 6th year of the BEAR Champion scheme 🎉 Thanking our volunteers for all their help over the past academic year and allowing our newer BEAR Champions to meet our supercomputer, BlueBEAR, in our data centre: www.birmingham.ac.uk/bear-champions ^SEMT

🐻 Need advice on using the supercomputer, managing your research data, or software support? Drop by our session TODAY at Café Aroma, Staff House, 1:30–2:30pm. Bring your questions and chat with the BEAR team! ^YZ #HPC #ResearchSupport

🔋 Zooming in at the atomic level to build better batteries! Thanks to @unibirmingham.bsky.social’s #BlueBEAR, researchers are simulating materials to supercharge energy storage—science meets HPC magic! 🔗 blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/08... #BatteryTech #HPC #BEAR ^AKG

🔋 Atomic simulations + HPC = better batteries! @unibirmingham.bsky.social’s #BlueBEAR helps researchers model materials at atomic scale to boost energy storage tech. 🔗 blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/08... #BatteryTech #HPC #MaterialsScience

🐻Got questions about using the supercomputer, storing research data, or working with research software? Come and see us TODAY at our drop-in session — we’ll be in Café Aroma, Staff House, 1:30–2:30pm. Bring your questions and have a chat with the team! ^YZ #HPC #DataManagement #ResarchSupport

🛩️ Bio-inspired flaps & morphing wings meet HPC! PhD student Hibah Saddal uses @unibirmingham.bsky.social's #BlueBEAR to simulate next-gen aerodynamic designs for UAVs. 🔗 blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/07... #Aerospace #HPC #FSI

🚨New pre-print 🚨 We introduce our new tool GOLD-GWAS and demonstrate its use by digging into the evolution of MRSA facilitated by SCCmec This work was led by talented PhD student @seungwonko.bsky.social who did most of the computational heavylifting 1/n www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

A warm welcome to Christine Stawitz, who joins us as our new Senior Research Software Engineer and Manager!💻 We're so pleased to have Christine on board — bringing her energy, expertise, and leadership to our growing team. Exciting times ahead! ☕ ^YZ #RSE #newstarter

We had a brilliant time at Central Induction today! Great to meet so many new faces and share what we do. Thanks to everyone who came by！^YZ @unibirmingham.bsky.social #uob

🎓Join tomorrow’s seminar: Open Source and Intellectual Property 🗓️ 15 July, 11:00–12:00 📍 Arts and Law Building, Room 103 The session will unpack the complex relationship between open-source practices and IP frameworks — an important topic for researchers and developers. ^YZ Register: bit.ly/3IINrrN

PhD student Guilin explores how temperate forest soils respond to climate change using high-resolution data and BlueBEAR HPC. Read more about this fascinating soil hydrology research 👉https://blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/07/07/high-resolution-soil-hydrology-analysis-enabled-by-bluebear/ #HPC #UoB ^YZ

🧬 BEAR supercomputing at @unibirmingham.bsky.social helped unlock insights into infant gut health and malnutrition—24 years of data crunched in 14 days! 🔗 blog.bham.ac.uk/bear/2025/07... #Microbiome #HPC #Malnutrition

Welcoming Louise to the ARC team! Excited for the fresh ideas and energy they'll bring. Let’s make great things happen! #NewHire #TeamStar #RSE @unibirmingham.bsky.social

Tomorrow (2nd) is our monthly in-person drop-in session held in Cafe Aroma, Staff House, 13.30-14.30. Got questions on data storage, processing, software support, version control, training + more... come and see us! 🐻^DC

🎉 That’s a wrap on #BEARChallenge2025! Huge thanks to all our brilliant participants, speakers, and supporters — we’ve loved every minute of it. See you next year for more HPC, teamwork, and bear-themed chaos 🐻💻 ^YZ

🏆 1st Place at #BEARChallenge2025 goes to Under the Hood! Incredible performance across all challenges! Each team member gets a Lenovo tablet. Huge thanks to Professor Stephen Jarvis, Provost and Vice-Principal of @unibirmingham.bsky.social , and Simon Thompson from Lenovo for presenting awards! ^YZ

🥈 2nd Place: A huge congrats to AlgoRythm! Consistent, clever, and fast — brilliant work from start to finish. Each member receives a Lenovo goodie bag 🎁 #BEARChallenge2025 ^YZ

🥉 3rd Place: Well done to Beariables! Strong showing and great teamwork throughout. Each member wins a special BEAR goodie bag 🐻✨ ^YZ #BEARChallenge2025

❓New for #BEARChallenge2025: our very first quiz round! No prizes up for grabs — just bragging rights and plenty of laughs. Great to see everyone getting stuck in and having fun! 🎉^YZ

The second keynote this afternoon from Dr Chandan Bose, Assistant Professor of Aerospace Engineering, sharing how his team uses HPC to tackle complex multi-physics problems — from unsteady aerodynamics to bio-inspired fluid-structure interactions. #BEARChallenge2025 ^YZ

This afternoon’s keynote came from Dr Kit Windows-Yule, Associate Professor in Chemical Engineering, who shared how he uses HPC in his research — and how AI is changing the game. A thought-provoking session at #BEARChallenge2025! 🧠💻 ^YZ

🍕 About 40 pizzas stacked high like a mountain at lunch today… and our #BEARChallenge2025 participants absolutely demolished them. Fuelled by carbs and code! 🐻💻 ^YZ

🖥️ Teams just took a virtual tour of our data centre — where all the HPC magic happens behind the scenes! From racks to real-time research, a great look at the tech powering #BEARChallenge2025. ^YZ

⏰ 10 minutes left in the final challenge of #BEARChallenge2025! Last chance to squeeze out those points — give it everything you've got! 💥🐻 ^YZ

Gavin Yearwood, our Senior Research Software Engineer, is introducing Challenge 5 — the final challenge of #BEARChallenge2025! One last push, teams — let’s finish strong! 💪🐻 ^YZ

It’s the final day of #BEARChallenge2025 — and we’re kicking things off with the results from Challenge 4! Some leaderboard shake-ups overnight… 👀 Let’s see who’ll take the crown by the end of today! 🐻🏆 ^YZ

📊 The leaderboard has shifted — some teams are starting to pull ahead, but it’s still wide open! Challenge 4 is now underway, introduced by our DevOps Engineer Leo Turnell-Ritson. Let’s see what you’ve got, teams! 🐻💻 #BEARChallenge2025 ^YZ

🥁 The results for Challenge 3 are in — fresh out after lunch! Well done to all teams for powering through. Some impressive scores coming in! 💪🐻 #BEARChallenge2025 ^YZ

👥 On Day 2 of #BEARChallenge2025, we heard from Dr Andrew Edmondson, the Deputy Head of ARC, who shared valuable advice on applying for roles in research computing and related fields.💼💻 ^YZ

⏰ 15 minutes left in Challenge 3! Final checks, last-minute fixes — now’s the time to make it count. You’re nearly there, teams! 💻🐻 #BEARChallenge2025 ^YZ

BEAR’s Senior Research Software Engineer, Dr Alex Lyttle, is introducing Challenge 3! Get ready, teams — it’s time to dive into the next stage. Let’s go! 💪🐻 #BEARChallenge2025 ^YZ

🌞 Day 2 of the BEAR Challenge is underway! Challenge 2 results are in — and it’s a tight race! 🏁 Teams are neck and neck, with just a few points separating the leaderboard… every submission counts from here on out! #BEARChallenge2025 ^YZ

⏳ 10 minutes left in Challenge 2! Final push, teams — check your outputs, submit your results, and don’t forget to breathe! #BEARChallenge2025 ^YZ